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- 1990
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
- 1990
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
Summary An Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption.
Directed By: Mike Figgis
Written By: Henry Bean
- 1990
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
- 1990
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 55 m
Internal Affairs
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7.8
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Summary An Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption.
Directed By: Mike Figgis
Written By: Henry Bean
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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65% Positive
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30% Mixed
6 Reviews
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5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
63
65% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
30% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Internal Affairs gets inside of you so fast that it's hard to look for or notice its imperfections. There's no point in quibbling about a movie that's this good, this absorbing and merciless, this original and twisted. [12 Jan 1990, p.E1]
Rising above its flaws, Internal Affairs converts a genre flick into a generic study, an examination of the mean streets that even the healthiest mind travels, those dark alleys where our force is sometimes overworked and always understaffed, the places where we, too, must police ourselves. [13 Jan 1990]
The script strives to turn Garcia into a nasty Gere alter ego, which may explain why both leads solemnly underplay it. Though Gere's contribution is welcome, two hard-ballers in shades may be one too many; on balance, it's the actresses (especially ever-solid Laurie Metcalf) who sustain interest. [12 Jan 1990, p.2D]
The very appealing Mr. Garcia has an intense, studied cool that is nicely offset by bilingual outbursts. And Mr. Gere makes the most of Peck's smiling villainy, giving him a powerful physical presence and a dangerous, unpredictable edge.
It never cuts loose. No matter how much come-hither villainy Gere generates, or how much envy and menace Garcia throws back at him, they're still trapped there in that bare, empty story, waiting for the dry ice and the steam to arrive.
Figgis' uneven pacing and reliance on blood and guts makes this a difficult movie to watch. Still, his handling of the clash between the two cops makes Internal Affairs somewhat compelling but far less interesting than his Stormy Monday. And his ending for Internal Affairs is a cop-out and predictable. [03 Jan 1990]
Figgis again aims for sensual moodiness, but so many clashing tones clamor for the viewer's attention that the result is a noisy mishmash.
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